Credentials

AWARDS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Professor James B. Boskey New Jersey State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section ADR Practitioner of the Year – 2006
• New Jersey State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section “Legend of ADR” Award 2007
• State of New Jersey Judicial College lecturer, 2006
• Committee of Arbitration Administrators/Civil CDR Point Persons lecturer, 2006
• Panelist, ADR Day, NJAPM, Inn. NJSBA and ABA dispute resolution programs
• Moderator, Verona and Cedar Grove Board of Education & Municipal Council Election Debates
• NJBIZ Magazine Top Mediator – Business/Commercial-2008

BAR ADMISSIONS

• State of New Jersey  -  1979; State of New York, Third Department – 1988
• Federal District of New Jersey – 1979
• Third Circuit Court of Appeals - 1991
• Supreme Court of the United States - 1986

WORK EXPERIENCE

Barbara Weisman, Esq., Verona, New Jersey

• 1994 through present - exclusive neutral private practice in alternative dispute resolution (excluding matrimonial/family); including but not limited to employment,   construction, legal, nursing, nursing home and medical malpractice, LAD, consumer, real property, liability, commercial, contract, banking, securities, debt, false arrest/imprisonment, civil rights,  fraud, agricultural, environmental and Tort Claims
• American Arbitration Association (AAA) Personal Injury Protection Arbitrator - wrote over 500 AAA written decisions, 1994 – 2001
• American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel of Neutrals, Special Bankruptcy Panel  2001-2003
• 1999 through present  - arbitrator and/or mediator for:
• Superior Court of New Jersey Roster of Mediators, Statewide Mediation Program for Civil, General Equity and Probate (mediated over 675 cases since 2001)
• United States District Court, District of New Jersey, Panel of Certified Arbitrators
• Superior Court of New Jersey, Civil Division, Essex and Union County Panels of Arbitrators (formerly also Bergen, Hudson, Middlesex and Passaic)
• New Jersey Municipal Court Mediation Program, Essex County Panel of Mediators
• New Jersey State Agriculture Development Committee Certified Mediator
• The National Arbitration Forum Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators
• NASD (FINRA) Roster of Neutral Arbitrators/Chairpersons; Roster of Mediators
• United States Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey Roster of Mediators
• National Arbitration and Mediation (NAM)
• Resolute Systems Roster of Mediators and Arbitrators
• Construction Dispute Resolution Services Panel of Mediators and ArbitratorsCPR:International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution Panels
• IRS Roster of Neutrals for Post Appeals Mediation and Arbitration Programs
• Case Closure, LLC

Law Office of Samuel A. DeGonge/formerly DeGonge Chappell, Belleville, New Jersey

• 1988 through 1994  - trial attorney primarily defending complex cases.
• Experience including, but not limited to, medical and nursing malpractice, liability, Tort Claims,  wrongful discharge, discrimination, contracts (including employment), false arrest and imprisonment, civil rights and maritime.
• Tenant organization attorney and Rent Board attorney for the City of Bayonne.

Office of the New Jersey Solicitor, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

• 1982 through 1988 - litigator primarily in defense of cases including liability, common carrier, maritime, sovereign immunity, discrimination, contracts (including construction), employment, Workers’ Compensation, bankruptcy, police defense and policy, and prosecution/resolution of commercial debt.

Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, Jersey City, New Jersey

• 1980 through 1982 - Assistant Prosecutor in Grand Jury, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court and Trial Team. Co-author, administrative manual for Fugitive Unit. Former certified instructor, Police Training Commission, Division of Criminal Justice.

Office of Professional Discipline, New York State Department of Education

• 979 through 1980 - Senior Investigator monitoring disciplined, licensed professionals (excluding attorneys and pharmacists); investigation of applicants for licensure and suspected unlicensed practitioners.

Lamb, Hutchinson, Chappell, Ryan & Hartung, Jersey City, New Jersey

• 976 through 1979  -  law clerk working in varied areas of liability.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND  INSTRUCTION

• Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers Mediation Workshop
• NASD Panel Member Training; NASD Chairperson Training; New Code Training
• Superior Court of New Jersey, County Arbitration/Mediation Trainings and Trainer
• United States District Court, Arbitrator Training
• uperior Court of New Jersey, Essex Vicinage, Advanced Mediation Training
• Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Chapter Associate, 1998-2000; National Leadership Conferences 2000/2006
• Agricultural Mediation Training Course by New Jersey State Office of Dispute  Settlement
• Civil Mediation Training Course and Family Law Mediation Training Course -  Institute for Continuing Legal Education
• American Arbitration Association No Fault Arbitrator Trainings
• Construction Dispute Resolution Services Arbitrator Training

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MENTORING/TEACHING

• New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators (NJAPM)
• New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) - Dispute Resolution Section (Past Chair; Board of Directors) 2000-present; Unlawful Practice of Law Committee (Vice Chair; Past Chair), 1984-1994;  Construction & Public Contract Law Section member
• American Bar Association - Dispute Resolution Section; ABA Advisory Panel
• Association for Conflict Resolution
• New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Character - 1990-1997
• New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law – 1994-2006
• New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution; Civil Subcommittee 2005-2008; Administration Subcommittee 2008-present
• Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for Alternative Dispute Resolution,  Chapter Master, Team Leader and past Executive Board Member, 2000-present
• Guest Lecturer, Rutgers Law School
• Trainer, Mentor and member of Mediator Facilitating Committee, Superior Court of New Jersey Roster of Mediators, Statewide Mediation and Advanced Mediation Training Program for Civil, General Equity and Probate

PUBLICATIONS

• Drafting ADR Clauses that Work”, New Jersey Lawyer, February 2005; reprinted Business Law Section Newsletter, New Jersey Bar Association, August 2005
• “Mandatory Mediation is Here to Stay”, 196 N.J.L.J. 258 (April 27, 2009)
• Former Editor, New  Jersey  State  Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Newsletter

EDUCATION

• Seton Hall Law Center - J.D. 1979 - Centennial Scholarship for Excellence
• Douglass College - A.B. magna cum laude 1975